Meeting 11-1-10

Meeting 11-1-10

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Agenda:

1. Ashland Credit

• Registration in March ($226 for 1 credit from Ashland)

• Grades in by May 1st

2. October - Sam Bennett Reflections

• Please post your reflections on the "Sam Bennett Reflections" page from October or November

3. Book Study Follow-Up

• Any tid bits to share?

Keep primary and intermediate together
Kathleen & Molly's Red thread activity
Mini-lessons - keeping it 11 minutes
Mentor texts
Sticky note on text, writing teaching points & ideas on sticky notes
CAFE website - booklists, 6 traits, Lucy Calkins, Katie Wood Ray all have booklists
Wickliffe - booklists based off of areas of DWA
Start together, then split off into primary & intermediate
Resources to help with documentation of what we're doing, Writing folders, conferring notebooks
Noticing areas of struggle, including documentation of conferring
Faciliting teacher-initiated book groups

• Ashland Registration going okay?

4. November - Sam Bennett visit

• Agenda (see Oct. for reference)
• Other districts learning with us
• Ideas from Literacy Coordinators?

Intermediate session - gave 2nd grade example - could Sam possibly focus on 3/4/5 example?
Address stamina during worktime - what time of year, etc
Working around distractions/interruptions
Quick & dirty UbD (reminded of AAA)
Time with units - planning


Reflections from Sam Bennett

• Space not as intimate - side conversations going on but related to
• Saw clear connection between 21st century skills and the workshop model
• Morning modeled workshop, afternoon felt more of a lecture
• Hearing her a 2nd time made concepts much clearer
• Some people overwhelmed, different type of thinking, backward design
• Sam met with Math Coaches to discuss ways to implement Math Workshop
• Some people felt stuck with content driving instrucruction (e.g., spending 8 weeks on one content area study)
• "Wow, what a paradigm shift!!" "This isn't the way I think"
• "This isn't a workshop where we can just sit and get, we have to work today"
• Discussion about daily schedules, people started to turn away, we can't because we don't have....
• Challenged people's thinking, which leads to small changes which leads to great changes

5. Future Sam Bennett visits...FYI
February 10th & 11th (Barrington, Greensview, Wickliffe, Windermere)


6. The Literacy Connection opportunity

• With our kickback from Ashland credit, we can send Literacy Coordinators to Debbie Miller's PD in April (can also attend Nov and March meetings). We can also fund your membership to Literacy Connection
• Please send J&K an email if:

1. you want to go to the Debbie Miller PD
2. Literacy Connection membership

7. Reminder - dinner with Sam Bennett on November 11th

• 5:00 meet at C/O to debrief and begin thinking about Dec 8th Early Release
• 6:00 Sam arrives
• 6:15 Dinner and work session with Sam
• We are going to try and wrap it up around 7:30

8. Balanced Literacy Framework

• look to the future and begin working after Sam Bennett visits in November

9. Book Study - 2nd Semester

• beginning a discussion about who, what, when, where?
• Possibilities

What's the Big Idea? (Jim Burke)
Teaching with Intention (Debbie Miller)
Catching Readers Before They Fall (Pat Johnson & Katie Keier)
Growing Readers (Kathy Collins)
Greensview already set - 21st Century Learning (Red book)
At our next meeting date, we need to make a decision


10. Future meeting date?
Friday, December 10th from 1-4pm @ Burbank